Plants
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Songs that mention trees and other plants.
Central theme[edit]
- C Is For Conifers
- Cabbagetown
- Clean Bean
- Dallas - Venue song for Trees
- Dear Old Plants
- Garden Of Eden
- Healer's Lament
- The House At The Top Of The Tree
- King Weed
- Mountain Flowers
- O Tannenbaum
- Old Pine Box
- Oranges
- Out Of A Tree
- Photosynthesis - In plants!
- Poison Flowers
- Sleeping In The Flowers
- Stalk Of Wheat
- Super Hot Mowing
- T-Shirt - About a squirrel in a tree
- To A Forest
- Tree
- The Tree Has Died
- Tumbleweed
- Welcome To The Jungle
Briefly mentioned[edit]
- Apple Juice Blues - "Sassafras..."
- Black Ops - "Ripping up some lawn"
- Boomerang - "All the deer and all the flowers"
- Canajoharie - "Through the overgrowth / Of the underbrush" , "Right through those trees"
- Can You Find It? - "Is the R inside the tree?"
- Careful What You Pack - "Shaking up the bees, swinging from the tree"
- Cells - Moss, a sunflower, and a tree
- Concrete And Clay - "You to me are sweet as roses in the morning"
- Cowtown - "The yellow Roosevelt Avenue leaf overturned, the ardor of arboreality is an adventure we have spurned."
- Darling, The Dose - "Venom and nightshade and strychnine's done in some"
- The Day - "The trees all waved their giant arms"
- Different Town - "And the stick would be this big old tree"
- Dimension Six Rock - "Along with trees and rocks and sticks"
- Eight Hundred And Thirteen Mile Car Trip - "Three thousand trees"
- Electric Car - "On verdant green", "Beside the tree"
- For Science - "Flowers die and so will I"
- The Gravel's Coming With Us - "There'll be trees, lots of trees"
- Gudetama's Busy Days - "Sitting in an old truck tire swinging from a tree"
- Havalina - "Among the trees"
- How Now Dark Cloud? - "Left under a tree"
- I Am A Paleontologist - "Crushing plants with rounded teeth"
- I Can't Remember The Dream - "They creep like weeds / Like weeds, they cover all the flowerbeds"
- I Enjoy Being A Boy - "And the blackbirds make nest in my tree"
- James K. Polk - "Young Hickory, Napoleon of the Stump"
- The Joker - "Want to shake your tree"
- Judy Is Your Viet Nam - "Boughs of holly"
- Lazy - "I want to peep through that deep tangled wildwood"
- Let Me Tell You About My Operation - "Front lawn"
- Lullabye To Nightmares - "Underneath the shady tree"
- Maine - "Glazed with coniferous green"
- Meet The Elements - "Plants, bugs, birds, fish, bacteria and men"
- Money For Dope - "Sarsaparilla"
- Moles, Hounds, Bears, Bees And Hares - "But when the breeze knocks the hive off the trees"
- Mr. Mischief Night - "Creeping in the grass"
- My Brother The Ape - "Some relatives of ours / Like the rotifer, the sycamore"
- New Hampshire - "Flower-sniffing poet of New Hampshire"
- New Haven - "I'm off the lily pad"
- Nevada (Hello EP) - "Ladies falling from the treetops"
- Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes - "And nothing's smellin' like a rose"
- Now Is Strange - "Have you seen that naughty boy who steals each blade of grass"
- O, Do Not Forsake Me - "O, some have forgotten the flower of speech"
- One Dozen Monkeys - "Mom was upset with the monkeys in the tree"
- One Everything - "You got the cars, the trees, the house"
- Pittsburgh - "Called the Electric Banana"
- Quit The Circus - "Now I make as much sense / As the car on the lawn / Sinking real low / Until it is gone"
- Santa Claus - "What you gonna put under my Christmas tree?"
- Santa Cruz - "Somebody invented a gun that shoots flowers"
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective - "From the top of a tree"
- So To Be One Of Us - "We swing on limbs of trees"
- Stone Cold Coup D'État - "The bark now commands the trees"
- Synopsis For Latecomers - mentions a forest
- Then The Kids Took Over - "I even planted a tree, now it's twelve feet tall"
- They Might Be Giants - "They might be frying up a stalk of wheat"
- Too Tall Girl - "Past the rooftops and the trees"
- Tractor - "The flowers wilt in his wake"
- Up The Junction - "So I bought the girl some flowers"
- West Virginia - "Rhododendron evergreen, propellers spinning from the tree"
- What Bothers The Spaceman? - "Walk past the trees he used to swing from"
- Where Do They Make Balloons? - "In Holland they have windmills, lots of bikes and pretty flowers"
- Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May? - "Like the rose so sweet"
- You'll Miss Me - "Lighting up your house like X-mas trees" , "Every tree a finger of my glove"
- Your Mom's Alright - "Your ass is grass, and I'm a lawnmower / You dandelion, I am a sunflower"
Honorable mention[edit]
- Artwork for The Else - specifically, the front cover features bare trees in the background
- Artwork for Glean - specifically, the front cover features bare trees in the background
- Grassroots Internet Revolution - "Grass" is a plant, but not what "grassroots" refers to.
- Artwork for Join Us — specifically, the back cover and the Never Knew Love image — features a yellow rose.
- Museum Of Idiots - An interpretation is one of deforestation.
- The Spine features trees on the front and back covers, as well as the liners.
- They Got Lost - Artwork features cacti.
